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...Until late this week. Appearing before a committee of British M.P.s Thursday to explain the Bank's handling of the crisis - the first run on a U.K. lender in living memory - King finally opened up. The Governor, the bank's former chief economist and an academic who's taught at Cambridge, Harvard and MIT, first got wind of problems at Northern Rock on Aug. 14. The Newcastle-based bank - Britain's fifth-largest mortgage provider - leaned heavily on wholesale money markets to fund its own mortgage loans. When those inter-bank markets started to freeze up in recent weeks amid...
With so many Indian consumers still opting for the traditional sari, it's not surprising that menswear would be the fashion category leading the subcontinent into the world of luxury. There are other factors, like the climate, that explain the popularity of menswear brands like Louis Philippe and Crocodile. In India, shirts are considered outerwear, and these two brands are well-known shirtmakers. Other high-scoring local brands such as Park Avenue, Allen Solly and Reid & Taylor focus mainly on men's business and formal attire (although they do manufacture women's lines and traditional Indian clothing)?which means...
...turnover fiesta in the first quarter,” head coach Erik Farrar said. “You usually get 40 possessions a game, we had 12 turnovers in the first half alone, do the math.” The Crimson, however, needed no mathematics to explain its second-half performance. Lewis opened the second half with another goal, but it would prove to be MIT’s last for the night. Harvard finally found its scoring touch in the second half, scoring seven unanswered goals and stifling the Engineers with a staunch zone defense...
...easy call. There's no better place to debate the future of American government--its possibilities and responsibilities as well as its limits and faults--than where so much went so tragically wrong. New Orleans is still an almost blank canvas, and the next President should be required to explain how he or she intends to help fill it in. A vision of success in New Orleans will comprise specific ideas about jobs, education, health care, housing, water, the environment, spending and pork-barrel politics. But it should also illuminate how the candidates view the role of the Federal Government...
...anyone explain why the lunch that we media in the press box so dearly rely on to survive the three-and-a-half-hour games was conspicuously missing during halftime? They may tell you it was because of a delivery faux pas, but you know what they say: don’t trust everything they tell...